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From “Purely Intellectual” to Sensory Confusion, and Against “Minimal” Objective Reality

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Cold Sensation as the Test Case:From “Purely Intellectual” to Sensory Confusion, andDescartes Against “Minimal” Objective Reality with ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking — Revised Edition Dr. David C. Ring ― ― ― Introduction The cold sensation has always been the most exposed nerve in Descartes’s theory of ideas. It is where his representational vocabulary—objective reality, material falsity, […]